plebnet workshop

a workshop about sovereign mining with the bitaxe.

• we deploy a custom signet (plebnet)
• we deploy a block explorer
• each audience participant deploys their own node
• each audience participant deploys their own stratum-server (e.g.: ckpool-solo) and configures:
  • their payout address
  • their custom coinbase tag
• each audience participant deploys their own bitaxe
• we watch the blocks being mined by different audience participants

slides

slides are built with marp:

$ cd slides
$ marp md/plebnet-workshop.md -o html/plebnet-workshop.html --theme-set css/plebnet-workshop.css

slides can be served via python http server:

$ python3 -m http.server 1337

scripts

• env_genesis.sh: provides shell variables and aliases for genesis deployment
• plebnet_genesis.sh: automates genesis deployment
• env.sh: provides shell variables and aliases for audience participants
• bootstrap_bitcoind.sh:
  • downloads bitcoin core
  • bootstraps bitcoin_datadir with bitcoin.conf
  • bootstraps bitcoin_datadir with a snapshot of a live plebnet (if available)

note: all scripts assume an ubuntu environment